Doumo Arigatou
Yes, y’all.
Had to jump on here to say thanks for your support on Bandcamp Friday. It was a more successful day than I was expecting. Extra-special shouts out to those of you who threw down for the whole dang catalog. Major help. I know money is tight for most of us so I really appreciate you digging in the couch cushions and whatnot.
As I mentioned in the last post, I marked the full catalog by a significant percentage (65%, yo) for BC Friday as a way to make it up to you for pulling my stuff off Spotify. As I’m writing this, the majority of my releases are now gone and expect the last few to be wiped in the coming days. The timing of this was kinda illmatic because the day after I made the decision to do it, I received my Spotify ‘Wrapped For Artists’ thing. It’s bonkers to see how much my music had been played on the platform over the last year…
1.8 million streams
256,000 listeners from 167 different countries, the top 5 being: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France
5.6 million minutes of streaming time - that’s ten years!
3200 people’s top ten, #1 for 400
What really messes with my head is that all my most popular stuff is from the Warner years. All of my top 10 songs come from the albums I’ve been distanced myself from. 20 Odd Years got more streams than any other album. It’s just bananas to me. There are so many different ways for me to analyze that info. One thing I keep thinking about is that the vast majority of the people who have been listening to my music probably don’t know about the stuff I’ve been doing over the last five years or so and probably aren’t reading this post right now. From the numbers I see, there are about 3,000 people following what I’m up to these days (maybe less). But I have a quarter of a million listeners on Spotify. Or had, I guess. Anyway, nothing will change but it gives me a lot to think about. Frig, it sucks that Spotify is so wack.
Couple of other things I want to mention, real quick. First of all, the new album by Luke Sick (of Sacred Hoop fame) and Roughneck Jihad (of Third Sight fame) is out now. It’s called Miclotronic Commandos and it features some production from yours truly. Very dope record. I’m proud to be a part of it. Be on the lookout. The vinyl packaging is beautiful.
Secondly, a little bird tells me that the vinyl for the special editions of Man Overboard should be in hand soon. I won’t promise you’ll have your copies by Christmas but it’s not out of the question.
Oh, and for you turbo-nerds who enjoyed the Drum Study mixes, volume 4 is coming soon - probably January. Be on the lookout for that.
That’s all I got for now. I mostly just wanted to say thanks for the support. I can probably fix the hole in my roof now.
It’s like that, y’all.